Chapter 408 — Nurturing and Transforming All Things
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Fan Xuanshu's expression shifted slightly; the force of the Great Luo Celestial Star Palm changed accordingly. In magical arts and divine powers, she was almost without peer in this world. Each node within the Great Luo Celestial Star Palm's force was a star; as the stars turned, the palm force's nature changed and its power became different. Her palm force looked like a physical divine power, but its roots were in spellcraft and divine powers, collapsing space inward—its variations were nearly inexhaustible.
In fact, after mastering the Great Luo Celestial Star Palm, Fan Xuanshu had lost all motivation to advance, because this divine power was too perfect, so perfect that none of the divine powers she later created could ever surpass it. The Great Nurturing Nether Demon Scripture possessed a grand unification art; Fan Xuanshu called the Great Luo Celestial Star Palm a Grand Unification divine power, able to command and govern all the divine powers of the Great Nurturing Nether Demon Scripture! Yet no matter how her palm force changed, Xing'an paid it no heed, made no attempt to guess her transformations.
No matter how many forms her power took, Xing'an simply smashed each one with a fist or palm, using sheer force! A god's fist.
A god's strength. A god's magic.
The god ignored every change she made, rolling over her directly, crushing all resistance! Blood seeped from Fan Xuanshu's mouth; she could feel the terrible might surging through Xing'an's palm force, a might that hammered at her primordial spirit and shook her demon seed. Li Zheng, the Blind Old Man, and the rest had been unable to overcome her or rescue Si Youyou; the Old Tathagata had been unable to convert her.
Yet Xing'an struck straight at her origin, meaning to destroy her! Emperor Yanfeng and the Blind Old Man attacked; Yu Zhaoging also rallied and threw herself at Xing'an.
Xing'an used his other four arms to handle Emperor Yanfeng and the Blind Old Man while the vital qi above his head steamed up and coalesced into a divine bridge. His primordial spirit stood on the bridge and fought with Yu Zhaoging, blocking the attacks of all three and leaving every one of them heavily wounded.
Too terrifying. With three heads and six arms, even Emperor Yanfeng could not break through his defense.
The Blind Old Man had the ability to pierce his defense and get inside, but Xing'an's strength was too great, and his magic power was so vast that it far exceeded the Blind Old Man's, stripping his attacks of any lethal force. As for Yu Zhaoging, her duel against the primordial spirit on Xing'an's divine bridge was a succession of narrow escapes. Xing'an's primordial spirit was bizarre and terrible; it kept changing, now a god of the Azure Dragon, now a god of the White Tiger, then suddenly turning into the Black Tortoise, then the Vermilion Bird. He had not merely seized the primordial spirit of one expert who had cultivated his spirit to the god realm! "Flawless, flawless.
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. " Blood poured from Fan Xuanshu's mouth; the demon seed was gradually shaken. But before the demon seed could be destroyed by Xing'an, this body would probably not be able to bear it.
For this was the body of her disciple, Si Youyou. Through the Dao-Heart Demon Seed, she had turned her own primordial spirit into a heart demon planted inside Si Youyou, nourished and strengthened by Si Youyou's body; recently it had begun to fuse with her, a cuckoo seizing the magpie's nest. Because of this, Si Youyou's body had also soared in cultivation—a year ago it had already broken through Life-Death, and some time ago it had broken through to the Divine Bridge. Yet Si Youyou's primordial spirit could not withstand Xing'an's attacks.
Before Fan Xuanshu's demon seed was beaten to death by Xing'an, Si Youyou would die at Xing'an's hands first.
"If Youyou dies, this body will be mine.
I can flee—Xing'an cannot keep me. .